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Facilitation challenges even the most seasoned business analysts. Encouraging stakeholders to attend, contribute, and stay on topic is difficult. But these problems worsen when the facilitation is virtual. Without visual cues and feedback, attendees don’t stay engaged. Often online participants abandon contributing. This interactive session offers how one organization addressed these issues using techniques such as a view from the future, visualization, a day in the life, and buy a feature.
• Learn tips and strategies to make virtual facilitation sessions fun, collaborative, and productive
• Learn more about promising technologies that leverage social networks and world time zones
• Leave with a proven approach to facing common online business analysis facilitation challenges

In theory, strategy development is a top-down activity driven by company executives. In reality, few organizations create well-articulated, actionable strategy. Business analysts, project managers, and business architects can fill their company’s void in strategy development by applying the skills they already have to capture strategic requirements and translate them into strategic imperatives and required capabilities. This session will present a step-by-step process for bottom up strategy crafting.
Key Takeaways:
• Why strategies die early deaths
• How to focus your organization on the work that matters most
• A framework for strategy discovery